Running commands on Linix/Unix systems?

FinalBuilder Discussion
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I’m looking at FinalBuilder to see if it will work for helping to automate builds at my company. One of the first steps that we do is run a script on a Linux system, and afterwards a number of steps need to happen on a Windows box. Is there a way to have FinalBuilder remotely execute commands on a *nix system?

Thanks,

Keith Hearn
Build/Release Engineer
Devicescape Software

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Hi Keith,

We have a Telnet action which can be used to log into a remote Unix machine and execute commands. This should be able to do what you need.

If you need a secure connection, it may be possible to automate a command line ssh client. We are planning to add SSH support in the future.

Regards,


Angus

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Hi.

I am in the same situation where we have both Unix and Windows environments that I have to run actions on. Currently I didn't implement the Unix part yet (I'm waiting for the SSH connection anxiously :)), but I was able to run PUTTY with command line from FinalBuilder on Linux machines... the problem is that I have no feedback whether the actions succeeded or not.

Angus: when u have the SSH action ready for beta, I'd be happy to give it a run.

Cheers

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Thanks for the suggestions. I got it working by using Cygwin’sssh from a “Run DOS Command” action. It even gives me correct exitcodes, so I can tell if the command succeeded or failed.

Here is one of the commands that I use:
c:\cygwin\bin\ssh rc@gobble 'cd/home/rc/p4/depot/components/wireless/wpa_supplicant/foo_wimax; make -fMakefile.linux clean libwpa_supplicant.a main_api_test_wifi’

You need to have Cygwin installed, and use ssh-keygen to set up yourSSH keys so you don’t get prompted for passwords. But once you havethat set up, it works pretty well.

Keith

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Thanks much!!
After some complications with the ssh keygen, I finally set it up and works like a charm :slight_smile:

you always learn something new in these forums.

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Hi,

I have a similar problem, I need to execute linux scripts to generate some RPM and use them in windows build. So when using the command, I think i need to write some command to execute the script in the ssh;

ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "password" "cd /script-directory/script.sh"

is this correct? can somebody comment on this?

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Angus, is the SSH feature implemented now?

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I would appreciate an update on this also. I need to access a loadbalancer (coyotepoint) via commandline / SSH and was told that putty would work. I might try Cygwin also.

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We don’t have a solution for this yet. It’s still on the todo list, unfortunately I cannot say when we will get to it.

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I’d like to add my voice to the requests for native SSH support. I’m getting it running using cygwin’s ssh.exe, like Keith, but built-in support would have been much easier and more maintainable.

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I have a similar situation with omanske.

My situation for now is that we need to send inputs to a Kemp LoadBalancer which uses SSH. Cygwin is unable to connect to it since it opens a kindof "popup" of which we have no control. Please also note that Cygwin is working fine with our current solutions.

For this particular problem, I don't think native ssh would help since the popup would still wait our input idefinetly as FBServer cannot interface with it. But don't get me wrong, native ssh would be a +++ to FB.

This is were my knowledge ends. I would like to know of any way this could be resolved.

Thank you.